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IRC Warfare

Floods and Flooding Attacks

Floods are simply more data than you can handle. The
majority of good servers have at least some measure of flood protection,
and will disconnect you if you flood the server. However using clones
or allies it is possible to flood without triggering the automatic protections.

MIRC and pIRCh, along with most *good* IRC clients have
some flood protection built in. If a user sends more than the allowance
specified in the floods section of the options your client will ignore
them for a specified time, which is generally around 30 seconds.

However, that only protects against text floods in the
main, so you may still be vulnerable to dcc floods and ctcp floods, control
code floods or other excesses of info designed to lag your client.

Luckily, basic flood protection is easy to find in almost
any script archive. A flood attack is not a wonder of technical prowess.
A dcc flood can be caused by a method as simple as choosing to dcc send
and then selecting about 20 files all at once. Hardly genious or kewl
is it?

A ctcp ignore (see Non-Tech
page, Ignores) will stop CTCP floods and DCC floods with ease. The
following Events script acts as a simple flood protection against all
CTCP floods (see Events page for
more).

While flooding attacks are hardly the pursuits of an
intellectual, they can be devastatingly effective if a powerful enough
flood is used. Floods from server lines or from more than ten users simultaneously
are a powerful thing.

Some variants of nukes use floods of data, and if done
with enough force like through a T3 line (much faster than ISDN) can crash
your system in an instant.

If you don't already have some flood protection apart
from the basic kind built into the IRC client software then you should
either get some from a reliable script archive (try IRC
Scripts) or try writing your own - its great to make your own scripts,
very satisfying.

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